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Jeremy Cantu
Software Developer

About

Jeremy originally hails from the border town of Laredo, Texas, thereafter attending Texas A&M University in College Station, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Computer Science with a concentration in Systems Engineering. He has an avid interest in building distributed, scalable, and performant back-end systems, with special attention paid in delivering clean, quality solutions, and evangelizing those same standards within his organization.

Work Experience

Charles Schwab
https://www.schwab.com/
4/1/2019 – Present
Manager, Software Development & Engineering
Played a key role in the design, development, and performance tuning of critical financial technology applications and batch services supporting the Schwab Portfolio Performance Reporting platform impacting tens of millions of clients, utilizing .NET Core C#, WebAPI, and the NoSQL database Aerospike, in an Agile and Cloud based environment.
In addition to the above, took lead in bringing SOLID principles, unit and integration testing, and performance profiling and benchmarking to the forefront of associated teams' day-to-day delivery activities. Much of this was facilitated via a self-driven technical forum that radiated these best practices across the organization.
Advanced Solutions International
https://www.advsol.com
1/3/2017 – 3/31/2019
Software Developer
Full-stack, .NET-focused software developer, specializing in C#, JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 based web-development, including back-end (Entity Framework, T-SQL) and RESTful API (WebAPI) middle-ware technologies, facilitated within an Agile, Scrum-based environment.
In addition to the above, responsibilities include quarterly product penetration-testing involving vulnerability scanning tools such as Arachni and Burp Suite, as well as database injection tool SQLMap.
Dell
https://www.dell.com/
4/4/2016 – 1/2/2017
Software Developer Senior Analyst
Software Development Engineer in Test, as part of the Dell Consumer Services "Responsive Platform" team. Responsible for automated test framework and suite creation for the whole of the application, utilizing C#, Selenium WebDriver, and SpecFlow, as well as monitoring and analysis using Splunk and Adobe Analytics.
Highlights
  • Highlights include my role as SDET lead, involving my close work with the team's Product Owner and Technical Project Manager. In addition, was involved in a subsequently patented voice interface application for a Dell.com "hack day" event
Sogeti USA
https://us.sogeti.com/
6/8/2015 – 4/1/2016
IT Consultant
Microsoft-technology oriented software developer, responsible for client-site projects in varying domains, platforms and technologies.The profession involves the adaptation to said technologies at a quick pace, the adoption of a wide depth and breadth of technical knowledge, and the building of soft-skills such as business interaction and presentation. Major accomplishments include a role as a Software Development Engineer in Test at Dell, as well as leading the Summer 2015 graduating class as the "Class President," elected by his fellow co-workers and peers.
Highlights
  • SDET role at Dell, took part in automated testing-suite creation for customer support applications using Selenium Webdriver and Protractor.NET, among other .NET and C# technologies

Education

  • 8/2012 - 5/2015

    Texas A&M University

    Bachelor of Science

    Computer Science (Final Major GPA: 3.3)

    Relevant Courses:
    • CSCE 221 - Data Structures and Algorithms
    • CSCE 438 - Distributed Objects Programming
    • CSCE 482 - Senior Capstone
    • CSCE 489 - Reverse Engineering

Awards

  • 10/2014

    TAMUHack

    3rd Place at the first annual TAMUHack

    Earned third-place in the "overall"​ category in Texas A&M's first hackathon with a 3D, Oculus-Rift design oriented video game. More information: http://devpost.com/software/attack-on-oculus

Contact

Austin, TX
(956)286-8386
GitHub
Résumé
LinkedIn
mail@jeremycantu.com

Skills
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.NET Proficient
.NET Core C# ASP.NET MVC 5 WebAPI Entity Framework
Web Development Intermediate
HTML5 CSS3 JavaScript Node.js
Front-End Frameworks Intermediate
Angular React
Back-End Databases Intermediate
SQL Server T-SQL RDBMS Aerospike NoSQL Store

Projects

Languages

  • English Native speaker
  • Spanish Read, write, and semi-fluency in speech